Lani by Eni L.S. (bearly read books txt) 📕

“Uhh,” I still don’t know what to say.

“We can watch 5o Shades of Grey,” he grins. And that snaps me out of my dumb state. I move my head backwards shaking his hand off my chin. I narrow my eyes on him.

“Sorry? You want to watch porn on our first date?” I am getting pissed. Who would take a girl on their first date to see Christian Grey? It’s like he’s saying, “hey let’s go see 50 Shades and get really horny from it so then we’ll have to go have sex to take care of it”. Seriously. WTF? And the asshole in question has the gall to laugh.

“You look hot when you’re pissed. I was kidding,” he chuckles again. “I just wanted to see your reaction. If it were any other girl she’d jump at the opportunity.” And that made me pissed even more. I glare at him.

“Well I am not any other girl. And you know what? Thanks but no.” I step away from him and walk to the room that said ‘nurse’ in front. He stops me by grabbing my arm. Damn my arm prickled from the touch of his hand. I wonder what it would feel like to kiss him. Uggh. No!

"Let me go Axel," I say quietly.

"Please. God I'm messing this up real bad. Lani. Give me a chance. You can pick the movie," he is looking at me with those eyes of his. Pleading hot green eyes. Seriously, who can say no to that? I take a deep breath and let it out.

I bit my lip. “Ok Friday. I want to watch Fast and Furious,” I grin at him. I want to see Paul Walker. My Paul. Why did he have to die? Why? Why??

Axel grins back. “Fast and Furious it is. Now let’s get you to the nurse.” He walks to the door, opens it and waits for me to go in first. Hmm such a gentleman. I smile my thanks to him. I walk in and a woman around her thirties is sitting behind a desk. She looks up with a smile.

“Hello. How may I help you?”

“Hi. I’m Lani and I think I broke my hand.” I wince when I lift my hand to show her. She gets up and walks around her desk to me. “Sit on the bed and let have a look at it.” I comply and went to sit on the bed.

“Now tell me what happened,” she says. I grimace. “Uhh I may have punched someone in the nose”. I look anywhere but at the nurse. She looks at Axel with her brows raised. “Oh it wasn’t him.” I quickly say. She takes my hand and put a little pressure on my knuckles. I hiss in pain and pull my hand away as reflex. “I’m sorry. I’m just going to examine it to see if it really broken. Bear with me for a while sweety.” She takes my hand again and I wince when she turns my hand and massages it. Gawsh I want to cry but I don’t want to embarrass myself in front of Axel. Speaking of the devil, he joins me on the bed and takes my hand in his. I swoon inside. He’s so thoughtful and making me fall for him even more. I gasped. What the hell?  I have not fallen. I have not fallen. Maybe repeating it in my head will make it truer.

The nurse let go of my hand. “Ok so fortunately it’s not broken. Just a little swollen. Give it a few days and it will go back to normal. Just ice it and no more punching people in the nose.” She wags her finger at me with a mock scowl. I laugh. “Ok I promise to ice it and not to punch anyone again.” I look away and mutter, “Unless they piss me off too much then I’m sorry.” The nurse laughs and Axel chuckles. “Now, now, you know the school has a no fighting policy. So no more fights for you sweety.” I smile innocently at her and nod. But for real though. I will do it again. For a good reason. Like why I punched blondie. That bulltch had it coming.

We all stand up and I thank the nurse. We were at the door when I realise we are still holding hands. I tensed and look down at our joint hands. I slowly remove my hand and smile awkwardly up at Axel. “Thanks”. “Anytime.” He smiles back. Swoon!

“I’ll walk you to your room.” He offers.

“Oh that’s ok. I remember the way. I won’t get lost,” I stammer.

“Hey, I want to.”

My breathing stopped. Once again. This guy will be the death of me I say. Did he have to say all the right things? I don’t know what to say so I opt to stay quiet. But not my stomach. It just had to growl. Damn you tummy! Damn you blondie! She is the reason why I didn’t finish my dinner. I hear Axel chuckle and I laughed lightly to hide my embarrassment.

“Let’s go back to the dining hall. Dinner hasn’t finished yet,” Axel suggests. My hunger took over my embarrassment. “Yes please! I need food.” We laugh. We come to the dining hall and I spotted Revi is still there and I walk to sit next to her. They are having dessert already. It was cheesecake. Yum. But I still want my food.

“Where’s my food?” I ask. “What the hell guys? Why did you throw my food away? I wasn’t done! I’m hungry.” I pout at Revi. I am about to start whining to Revi when a plate of food is placed in front of me. I look at Axel with wide eyes and I blush. If you should know I don’t blush. I never blush. Until now. He smiles and sit next to me. He even brought me cheesecake.

“Thank you,” I say shyly. Then my stomach growls again. Revi is the first to laugh of course. “Girl that was so loud,” she sputters. I laugh with her. “What? I blame blondie. She disrupted my meal.” I start eating. Or should I say I am trying to eat but my hand hurt too much and can’t handle using the knife. So yeah I just poke a whole meatloaf with the fork using my left hand and brings it to my mouth. I take a huge bite out of it. Yumm.

“So, what did the nurse say?” Rev asks.

I swallow my food before answering. “It’s not broken. Thank heavens. It’s just swollen a bit. Should be healed in a few days.” I take another bite. I turn to Axel and offer him some meatloaf. “Want some? You probably didn’t finish your dinner too.” “Yeah sure,” he says his eyes never leaving mine. I push my plate closer to him thinking he’d take the remaining meatloaf. But nope. Instead, he holds my left hand and takes a bite out of my meatloaf.

“Hey! That’s mine,” I mock scowl at him. He laugh. “I know. God you should’ve seen your face. So damn cute.” He has the gall to grin at me and making me blush. I glare at him, “You’re an idiot.” He laughs.

I turn and everyone is staring at me. Revi is giving me her “you know what I’m thinking” look. I narrow my eyes at her, “Shut up.” She laughs and then looks at Axel”. “Axel, because Lani is so bad with introductions, I’ll introduce myself. I’m Revina. Lani’s bestest friend in the world. The friend who’d kill for her.” Though she said that with a sweet innocent smile, anyone can tell it’s a threat. Did I say how much I love this girl? Yeah I’d kill for her too. “Nice to meet you Revina. I hope I’ll never be your murder victim.” He smile at her. It was not the same smile he’s always giving me. Revi laughs. “I like him already,” she says to me. I give her a warning look. She look at my hair.

“You still have mashed potato in your hair.”

“I’m too hungry to care right now.” I say as I eat my cheesecake. I don’t offer it to Axel. Yeah, I never share my cheesecake.

“Guys what classes do you have tomorrow?” I ask everyone.

“Me and Sarah have Calculus first period, history and then French before lunch,” Rachel says.

“I have chemistry, English Lit and then gym,” Andy says.

“Gym, Economics then Calculus,” Matt says.

“Same”, says Ansel and he fist pumps with Matt.

“I have Music, theatre and then gym,” Miles says.

“Same for us except for theatre. We have English for second period.” I look at Axel.

“What about you?”

“I have bio first period and then same with you for second and third.” He smiles. That brought a huge smile to my face. “Cool.”

“Well guys, I’d love to stay and chat some more but I have to go wash my hair before the potato rots in my hair. I’ll see you guys tomorrow.” I excuse myself and Axel starts to get up too. “I’ll come with you”. I look at him with my brow raised.

“You want to wash my hair?”

That made him blush. He actually blushed. I laugh out loud. “I was kidding. You don’t have to come. I’ll see you tomorrow. And thanks for taking me to the nurse.” I reach up and kiss him on the cheek. My lips tingled from the contact. Woah. If just kissing his cheek feels like this then maybe kissing his lips must be electrifying. I blush at my thoughts and walked off.

“Looking forward to it. Oh what’s your number?” he asks.

“Uhm I don’t know,” I answer truthfully.

“You don’t remember or you just don’t want to give it to me?” he jokes. But I can see a hint of hurt in his eyes.

“No! It’s not that. I mean, ugh I would give you my number if I remembered it. Or if I had my phone with me but I left it in my room. Honest. I don’t even remember my number because it’s new and I haven’t memorized it yet,” I babble. I probably sound like an idiot because he was laughing. “Hey I get it. I’ll get it off you tomorrow.” He smiles.

I smile back. “Ok then. Uh see ya. Uhm thanks again. For the nurse. And the food. Um I’ll shut up now. Bye.” I wave and hurry off to Revi who is already at the door smirking at me. I notice that other students were whispering to each other and looking at my direction. Oh screw them.

“Don’t say a word,” I hiss when I reach her.

“Wasn’t gonna.” She laughs. “Now let’s go wash your hair. You look like a vale (idiot).”

I hit her on the arm and tried to dodge her when she hit me back.

                   *****

I am standing with my head bent under the shower head letting the warm water flow through my hair. Hot water I think with a smile. Perks of living in America. We don’t have hot water systems. It’s just a cold shower for us. But not as cold as an actual cold shower here which is like ice water.

Revi is combing the potato bits out